I know quite a few people of my own age or younger (I'm 15 if it helps) who have at some point in life been drunk. This should probably be quite worrying... we aren't meant to be able to touch the stuff yet, never mind get drunk. But it isn't, not really. I mean, these things happen all the time. It's nothing new.

I personally am not a huge fan of alcohol. I mean, some stuff is quite nice, but then again things like red wine burn the carp out of your throat and you don't really get much to compensate other than a weird warm feeling, which lasts anywhere from 5 minutes to hours depending on how much you drink. Betcha can't guess which end of the scale I'm on xP
(Disclaimer: all alcohol consumed by Yours Truly was legally done ie at home under adult supervision or at church when we went with school, hence wine burning)
But once you go past a few drinks things get really crap. This is all based on observation rather than experience btw: people start getting really happy, laughing at nothing and staggering around making friends for life with strangers. People fall over a lot or puke on themselves. People's emotions go insane and they become hysterical; either crying or laughing or both. People lose control of their rational minds and start behaving in a ridiculous manner and/or do things they will regret.
Some malicious individuals will put things into others' drinks, sometimes relatively harmless, often with criminal intent. And then you wake up the next morning with the headache from hell. If you keep drinking regularly, you could well end up with liver damage.

Not to sound like Scrooge or anything, but is all that really worth the warm happy feeling?

Not in my opinon. I don't ever want to get drunk- I mean the idea of being so euphorically happy as to be utterly unaware of my own actions is not an idea that appeals to me at all. Anyway, Im kinda wary of drink anyway because I reckon my liver's already pretty screwed; when I was about 2 I dislocated my wrist and was fed around half a bottle of calpol (the max. dose at that age is 5ml I think) by a scary woman with red lipstick and matching hair who wouldnt stop smiling even as she rammed my wrist bones back into correct position. So for me, risking further liver damage would probably result in serious health conditions, death etc etc etc. Yeah, I'm probably a killjoy. Yeah, I shouldn't knock it till I've tried it. Well, I don't need to try it to know how it works. Do I need to have been hit to know that being hit is a Bad Thing? No. This kinda falls into the same category.

So, my dear reader... please comment your thoughts, drunken experiences etc etc

Thanks for reading =]